Facebook rolls out 50-person video chat for Messenger Rooms
Facebook rolls out Messenger Rooms, making it possible for up to 50 people to participate in a video call at the same time.
The functionality will initially be available in the United States, Mexico and Canada, but in the next few days, the rest of the world will also be able to set up a convers... Read more
Co-founder Facebook: ‘It’s time to break up the company’.
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, pleads in a big opinion piece in The New York Times for a break-up of Facebook. According to Hughes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company have too much power. "Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American."
Hughes makes it clear in the piece that he and Zuckerbe... Read more
Facebook always makes you findable via your phone number
If you enter your phone number on Facebook to protect your account, for example, it will no longer be possible to hide it. Mark Zuckerberg's social network makes it impossible for users to be completely untraceable.
This is reported by Jeremy Burge, who is mainly concerned with the development of em... Read more
Facebook Workplace now has more than 2 million paying users
The market for business communication services is still crystallising. While Slack is currently dominant with 10 million daily active users, Facebook Workplace is also gaining in popularity. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company, there are now 2 million paying users on the service.
Facebook doe... Read more
Facebook stops in its entirety with the data-collection VPN app Onavo
Yesterday, Facebook removed its Onavo Protect VPN app from the Google Play Store. The app infringed users' privacy. For the time being, the app will remain active on devices where it is already installed, but it no longer collects new data.
The TechCrunch site reports that Facebook will immediately ... Read more
Germans forbid Facebook data of all their apps and services to be linked just like that
One of Facebook's plans doesn't just go ahead. The German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has announced that it is going to restrict the possibilities for Facebook with the usage data of its services and the Internet as a whole. That is the conclusion of a long investigation by the auth... Read more
WhatsApp removes 2 million fake news accounts per month
Fake news is and remains a major problem. Tackling this is not always easy and often requires substantial investments. This also applies to various tech companies such as Facebook. It turns out that two million WhatsApp accounts are deleted every month, in violation of fake news.
WhatsApp reports th... Read more
From now on anyone can delete messages in Facebook Messenger
Facebook comes up with a new feature that users have been asking for for some time. It is now possible to delete messages sent within Facebook Messenger. In the past this was already possible, but only for your own inbox. However, now it is also possible to delete messages for everyone.
The new feat... Read more
Apple blocks Facebook app that collected data about teenagers
It doesn't stop for Facebook. Last Tuesday it appeared that Facebook users - some of them under the age of 18 - paid to participate in a program in which the social network collected a lot of data. Facebook used a VPN app, which is now blocked by Apple.
The TechCrunch site discovered last Tuesday th... Read more
“FTC imposes Facebook record fine for privacy scandals.
The Federal Trade Commission is currently investigating Facebook. Above all, the FTC checks whether Facebook has indeed succeeded in protecting its users' data. Now it seems that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's social network will receive a record fine for this.
That's what the Washington Post reported last F... Read more